Me, My Guru – On attachments, faith and commitments....
“Now this sweeper would see God standing day after day from morn to night
as devotees come in hundreds to seek His blessings. Sweeper’s heart went out to
God. He felt the tiredness of God and also the pain in God’s legs. He was moved
with pity, affection and concern. In his innocence he told “God, I can see how
tired you must be standing there day after day. Let me stand on your behalf for
a day as you can rest a bit”.
God smiled and agreed but added “but as you stand there in my place, you’ve
to follow a golden rule of not moving or saying anything. You just should stand
and see everything silently and do nothing about it”.
“This is a child’s game” thought the sweeper”.
I had come when the session was already in progress. Initially, I would
create lots of noise taking out and adjusting my papers, drinking water and
with such activities. I would even say ‘hi, hello’ to everyone. Now I’ve come a
long way from then. I would go and silently sit at the back. Today I can see how
insensitively selfish was I! Now I don’t create pandemonium to go front. Of late, I’ve
even stopped asking others as to what I missed. If I came late, I didn’t deserve
to disturb others with my ‘assumed eagerness to learn’. So today I didn’t know
how and when the session started and in what relation was this story being told
by her (our Guru). Yet, I didn’t feel the need to as I sat silently listening
to her today. She may have said it from other angle for all I know but I got my
answers for my questions which remained so inspite of being answered so many
times.
“Why didn’t I have the innocence of that sweeper?” I asked myself umpteen
numbers of times that day and in the days to come. I was the one to go to God
ONLY SEEKING and demanding or complaining about something or the other. But I never
for once felt bad for GOD! Yes, wouldn’t HE be vexed of hearing our cribbing,
hate words, angry bickering, our cries and what not? Wouldn’t he be tired? Wouldn’t
His ears ache with all those words? Wouldn’t He want to run away from all of
us? Yet He never did! Was this ‘Love’ that I didn’t get to see and validate all
these years? Was deep in selfishness was I wallowing to be so ‘me-centric’?
Why did I never ‘do’ anything to work for Him to relax?
Contd.....
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